This release focuses on user interface improvements:
+ Slide Show: in addition to KB control, an automatic interval can be set.
+ For lengthy functions, the cursor changes into a clock.
+ Trim: margins are darkened for better visibility. The aspect ratio can be fixed.
+ Index tags and thumbnails: now works incrementally (seconds instead of minutes).
+ Bugfix: unbend function was leaving the axis lines on the window.
+ Bugfix: file save-as was not updating the recent files list.

+ New: select area by color. Click to select a contiguous area matching
clicked color within a range. Click or drag to accumulate new areas.
Right-click undo. Edit functions can be used within the selected area.
+ New: disable selected area, leaving it available for re-use or re-edit.
+ Panorama: better compensation for local scaling differences caused
by a horizon or rotation difference in the images being combined.
+ Panorama: auto search for camera parameters made more robust.
+ Reduce noise, new method added: flatten outliers based on ratio of
mean deviation to the standard deviation of neighboring pixels.
+ Blend-width scale made non-linear for finer control of small values.
+ Image gallery: open folder starts with parent of current directory.
+ Bugfix: clone instance has English GUI instead of original language.

Hello muggings, I've just moved up to puppy 4.3 from 4.2.1; a clean install not an upgrade. Thanks for the fotoxx update but no entry was set on installation, the installer stated that no entry would be made.
By the way an entry was made for your 8.3 version that I had on 4.2.1. Could you help me get that menu entry?
Best, munichjohn, where autumn is with us.

An automatic white balance function was added. The success rate for 1-click red-eye removal was raised from 47/54 test cases to 52/54 (drag method is 100% successful but needs more time and care). Convience buttons were added to the HDR final adjustment dialog. A Spanish translation was added for the User Guide "quick guide" section. Bugfix: Image navigation could crash if presented with an empty folder. Bugfix: Zoom-in followed by some edit functions caused the image to be displayed with a false width/height ratio (cosmetic only - edit still worked normally).

+ Area edit, blend width: notify user if edge calculation is missing.
+ Ignore mouse click if mouse was moved between button down and button up.
+ Bugfix: pano align, fix small image shift on the right side of the joint (v.8.5).

Area selection using the mouse was extended. The user can switch back and forth among three methods: connect lines from point to point using mouse clicks (as before), drag the mouse for freehand line drawing, and click/drag near an edge to follow the edge. Use right click to undo mistakes or right drag to erase lines before re-drawing them.

Color select: calculation of distances for edge blending is faster (still too slow for large areas).

New: copy a selected area from one image and paste anywhere in another.

Bug fixes: the latest Ubuntu (9.10) revealed two new problems so far: A GDK graphic context used by >1 windows can get their sizes mixed-up. The program exiftool no longer accepts a date without a time appended. Fotoxx was adjusted to accept both the new and old behaviors.

Translations are not updated. These will be notified here when available.

+ Bug fix: tag search by date could omit the first date in a range.
+ New edit function added: flip image vertically or horizontally.
+ Edited files can now be saved as PNG in addition to JPEG and TIFF-8/16.
+ Select area by mouse: algorithm changed to improve visibility of gaps.
+ Select area edge calculation has been made over 10x faster for large areas.
+ Copy and paste area: a copied area can be resized and edge-blended with
the background image at the time it is pasted.